"Mint report about sending tin to the Straights"

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: T 1/111.33, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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To the R^t. Hon^ble: the Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain

May it please Your Lord^p.

The time of the Year approaching for exporting Tin, into the streights and an hundred Tuns being the last summer melted into Barrs for that purpose. Wee humbly pray Your Lordships directions whither {sic} y^t Tin and so much more as shall be thought convenient shall be put on Board her Ma^t^ie^s men of warr in the next Convoy into the Mediterranean, to be carried to Leghorn and Genoa or the Trade in the Mediterranean be left to the Merchants management.

All which is most humbly submitted to your Lord^ps

Great Wisdom.

C. Peyton

Is. Newton

In Ellis

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|Mint|
Report ab^t sending Tyn to y^e Straights.

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL - newtonproject@history.ox.ac.uk

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